September 07, 2010

On Saturday evening, right before driving over to my parent's for a bbq, we noticed Neil had made a new friend on his way to the car.

we have some of the craziest butterflies and moths I have ever seen in our yard. They aren't shy and they're everywhere. I guess it's because we have a very wet front yard, and they just seem to love it.

This one hung on until we were a few miles down the road, where it flew off and out the window.

And the reason for this post...I have been meaning to share this little frame since after Christmas, but could never get a great enough photo of it and finally just forgot about it. I walked by it the other day and realized I better finally share it before another Christmas (dare I say it..) rolls around.

Made for Stu of course. Just a frame, a couple photos and some labels. I really do love llamas though. And that happens to be a frequent saying of mine. The llama in the pic was hanging out at Ren Fest last year, I thought he was pretty adorable. Like every other llama I see out and about and take photos of. Though knowing my luck it's really an alpaca (which I love as equally much.. but llama is just an awesome word). Eh.

There is a vintage milk bottle behind the frame, which holds our spare change and my ankle bracelets (with bells!). It sits next to that frame on the dresser. After trying to get a decent photo inside, with no natural light to be had at this time of day, I decided to set up outside and include the bottle for a little authenticity. heh.

Alright, now I'm off to finish cooking dinner and keep plugging away at organizing my office/studio. Is it terribly uppity of me to claim to have a studio? An office is one thing... but I mean, I haven't lately but hopefully I will be painting, scrapping, drawing, collaging and all that in here. I did finally get caught up with my blog reading and have become insanely inspired with all that I found. I need to dedicate a day to creating. Real, true creating and experimenting. I'm a tad scared of what will come out though and my emotions are already tipping the edge most days. It may not be a bad thing though.

August 29, 2010

First thing I've made in a month. Second thing I've made in like... three months.

My cards are not open up cards. More like post cards. Or like mini collages. Or mini pieces of crazy nonsense. Whatever.

I'm starting to feel this transition going on in my head when it comes to paper and scrapping and all that. Things I've been wanting to change and implement for awhile now. The first step will be purging even more of my supplies and just keeping what I truly love and use. We'll see how that goes. I've got ideas that rush through my brain daily and my supplies completely hinder me some days... I like to keep it simple. Or, I like to say that I do.

March 05, 2009

My whole body and mind fought very hard about getting out of bed and doing anything at all today. It's going to be a slow and long process today...

The newest prompt for The Art is Found is up.Feathers.I made a little postcard with some watercolors, paper bits and the first part of an Emily Dickinson poem. (I am very passionate about Emily Dickinson, just so you know.)Which I found out later was the same poem miss AW was using to start off the prompt.I'm hoping that means great minds think alike.And if you think back just a week and some days ago, my project for the TAIF prompt of lace, were some feather tags. So, obviously I'm very good at not paying much attention to anything. Because I have an email that lists the upcoming prompts and for some reason my brain just wouldn't look down to the next one when I was making my tags?And actually, I will do this again by the time the next prompt rolls around, but I can't say anything more than that, so just stay tuned.

I'm hoping I amuse someone around here, because I certainly have amused myself.

Here's to a productive Thursday. Or a lazy Thursday with the intention of maybe being productive.

June 21, 2008

nothing I was planning on doing turned out.like going to the paper pixie crop.and I'm glad I hadn't payed for it yet since everything was up in the air. because I did not get to be there.

BUT here is the canvas I made with some the product Sara was selling today at the crop:

I'm really happy with it.... 4th of July is not really a holiday I decorate for, actually, we haven't done much to celebrate it in the past couple years (last year it was raining, the year before that Neil was working...). So this was a bit of a challenge for me, but I really liked the result. Too bad I didn't get to share it at the crop today.... eh. I'm not talking about it. No negativity!

May 18, 2008

Like, seriously, all I can think about right now is the amazing people I have in my life - it's just amazing the good things you can find when you think things look really bleak. My heart is just really full.

So, last week my stepmom graduated from Baker University....

I'm so so so proud of her, she really did exactly what she set out to do and completed her goal. With all these graduations I've feel really inspired to get focused again on school, it's a serious dream of mine to graduate someday with a degree - I've let things come in the way of me really truly enjoying college and pursuing my goals - but no more of that!

So back in April I signed up to to an art swap on SIStv. My partner is tallynt and I've been such a dweeb and am just now getting around to posting the collage I did for her a couple weeks ago ... I'm so behind and she's been just lovely about it too! Here is what I made for her:

I hope she likes it!! I saw some photos of tulips in her portfolio and tulips are my favorite flower (of all time ever ever ever!!!) so that's what I decided to use as my subject. Do you guys have any idea how long it's been since I've done a painting/collage??? YEARS. But it was insanely fun and I forgot how relaxing it can be for me. I should try to do it a little more often, even it's just smaller ones in my journal.

February 05, 2008

I'm eating some hot oatmeal right now, and going over taxes - thank you thank you turbotax.reorganized the art/work space today, and that felt good. every once in awhile the mess just gets to be too much. Good day, quiet day. Easy day. Lots to think about, but all good things.:).

January can easily become a very dull month for me. It's the month right after Christmas, and nothing major really happens so it doesn't stand a chance!I love seasonal decorations. I'm not even a big decorator - mostly I use photos and artwork to decorate and colorful walls. I like it simple. But I like things to reflect the seasons and the months and I love to keep things fresh.

So this turned into a very extra long explanation huh?

Since it was getting close to January and was already very much winter, we made paper snowflakes. With white cardstock and glitter glue. I've been doing this for a long time, on and off when I was a teen, and every year that Neil and I have been together. This year, after Christmas decor came down, I hung them in front of my fireplace right over our bed. Which also happens to be in the living room. But that's an explanation for another day, this is getting quite long for me!

(what's really fun is when a vent is blowing the snowflakes start to dance!)

and why take them down in February, it's still winter, so I think I'll just hang some hearts up with them and set out my red candles.

Get rid of them when I'm done with them?? how wasteful!!! I'll just wrap them up carefully and save them for next year - make some more every year and I'll start to have a quite a few - which cuts down on the cutting each year as well.

And that right there, is a pretty typical weekend activity for Neil and I. love it.